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Monday, October 12, 2026

Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? Here’s What the New Research Actually Shows.; The New York Times Magazine, September 29, 2026

Juliana Castro Varón and Dylan Freedman, The New York Times Magazine; Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? Here’s What the New Research Actually Shows.

"Experimental evidence suggests that using A.I. not as a full shortcut, but as a means to exercise what they were supposed to learn, allowed them to outperform the remaining particulars in the A.I. group and those who hadn't used A.I. at all.

In other words, these studies so far agree: Artificial intelligence is affecting how people, especially the young, learn and remember. Whether we will be dumber as a result might depend on how — not if — we use A.I."